Annnd to round it out, John Edwards cheating on his wife while she was battle cancer.
The scandal there isn't that he cheated on her. Hell McCain cheated on his 1st wife and left her while she was battling cancer for a younger, richer woman. The scandal is that she accepted his apology and that they have maintained their marriage!
So...when does Mrs. Edwards run for Senator of New York?
My wife and I might not buy a Volt immediately because so many companies are entering the market
No. You won't buy one, because you won't be able to...unless you order it far in advance or you work for Chevy. The first year model will be with very limited availabilty.
As a frame of reference, 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid will be a run of 12,000 vehicles and there's currently an eight month waiting list. That said, I do enjoy mine.:-D
Can we please start modding up all "fixed that for you" posts to the point of maximum visibility?
Putting words in other people's mouth is about the best thing you can do in a debate/discussion. And adding "fixed that for you" adds a commednable level of profoundness on top of the collaboration.
The same method could be used to avoid costly court battles. This seems like a no-brainer. What am I missing?
You're missing the fact that everyone involved with making decisions about the patent process are lawyers.
Why on earth would they recommend anything that would cost them a substantial amount of business?
Actually...why not tax internet (as opposed to intranet) e-mail? I don't mean a flat rate, but rather a sliding scale tax like what's used for income tax. Below a reasonable threshold, say 200 emails/wk, you don't get taxed at all. The more e-mail you send, the more you pay per e-mail. That would utterly destroy the business models of spammers and wouldn't put a burden on Joe User. Btw, it would also put somewhat of a burden on those companies that outsourced their IT dept, but after having mine been outsourced to IBM and then witnessing all the monkey shit around here lately, I have no sympathy.
My understanding is, the fact that you pay for time spent on incoming calls doesn't protect you in any way from any call.
Incorrect. From the Telephone Consumer Protection Act:
a.No person may
1.Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,
iii.To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
So, while cell phones are not protected from *all* calls, they are protected from those that use "an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice," which is a significant percentage since most telemarketing companies use an automatic dialer.
If this doesn't give the guy credibility, I don't know what does.
Fox News is the boradcast version of the National Enquirer. After all, it was the fine reporting at Fox news that labelled the guy that logged into CNN's online chat as President Clinton after the system crashed as a hacker.
Steven B. Lipner, Microsoft's director of security assurance, responded, saying: "I'd be astonished if the open-source community has in total done as many man-years of computer security code reviews as we have done in the last two months.
Lipner also reacted with astonishment when he was told that professional wrestling matches are fixed.
"Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed," he said.
So...rather than teach them how to properly develop, test and peer review software loads, thy're just going to brainwash them into good little Micro$oft monkies. Bleh.
The Register is incorrect. HP-UX 11i was developed to run on Itanium so that they can install Unix or NT on the same hardware. Future versions will also be developed.
They never claimed it was under the GPL. The press release states, "Sun will distribute Sun Grid Engine software under an industry-accepted open source license in order to accelerate the adoption of the distributed computing model."
Take note that "industry-accepted" is an adjective that means absolutely nothing other than there are other applications distributed under the same license. Also take note that, "in order to accelerate the adoption of the distributed computing model," roughly translates to, "so more people will use it."
If you go to the "Download" page, you'll find the license statment as in all other Sun downloads. It says:
Licensing
The product is free and there is no software enforcement that restricts distribution. The product is issued under a standard Sun Binary Code License.
As many of you already know, the SBCL is Sun's version of Open Source that allows them to control the modifications done to the product.
Some of us have been doing it since that stupidass Black Album:).
Yep. I knew that no good would come from Mr. Rock producing their albums. He also produced such musical geniuses as Bon Jovi and Motley Crue, the type of bands that Metallica loved to hate in their early days. It's a sad thing to watch a band go from fighting the establishment to becoming the establishment. I find it ironic that their web site has the quote, "And if I close my mind in fear Please pry it open." Seems their minds are closed in fear these days.
"Then I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again." --The Who
This looks like a list of "Things To Do Today" for the average jock...except for the "feelings of isolation" one.
* Hits or bullies others. * Expresses uncontrolled anger. * Has unlawful possession and use of firearms. * Displays intense intolerance or prejudice. * Has unlawful possession and use of firearms. * Has excessive feelings of isolation and/or rejection. * Conveys violence in writings and/or drawings. * Uses drugs or alcohol on campus. * Makes threats. * Suddenly has bad grades or little interest in school. * Is easily angered by minor things.
Y'know we'd save a lot of headache if every open source license had the following addendum:
Microsoft, and any subsidiary company or employee thereof, is specifically barred from modifying this source code in any way, shape or form.
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em...preferrably with a big stick.
Scream 3 is high on my "Must Not See" list
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I still refuse to spend money on any movie produced by a member of the MPAA. If I was going to make an exception to my boycott, it sure as hell wouldn't be for this movie.
Hrm. Even if you manage to trace the person(s) responsible for sending out spam, what are your chances of being able to legally prosecute them if they live in another state or, for that matter, country? Are we going to be arresting a 16 year old boy in Norway because he didn't add the "ADV:" to the subject line?
What about spam that can't be traced to an individual? Is the ISP or e-mail service provider legally liable?
I'm also concerned about how interstate and international commerce laws apply. From just about every angle this looks like a bigger mess to attempt to enforce than the line on the Michigan tax forms that ask how much you've spent on internet purchases so they can make you pay sales tax on it. (Hint: The answer is always $0.00)
Until these issues become the subject of federal law, this is all strikes me as so much mental masturbation designed to sell incumbents to their constituents come re-election time.
I hate it when this happens...
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Heh. Getting my mother to use Linux wouldn't be that difficult. My fiancee is another matter entirely. She's about as computer literate as a house plant. Which is why I hope they suceed. I'd like to be able to discuss Unix and Linux issues without her eyes glazing over.
That said, making Linux an easier pill for John Q. Public to take requires more than a GUI.
It's going to require a "Plug and Play" ability for peripherials...or at least better automatic detection and mounting. The latter is mostly an issue of better driver support. The former is a much more drastic change.
It's also going to require a increased ability to set things up from the desktop graphic tools. Don't get me wrong. I'm a command line evangelist. As a systems admin, the command line tools give me a better insight to how the system works. John Q. Public, OTOH, really doesn't give a flying fsck how the system works. John Q. Public wants to run his Quicken 2000, Office 2000 (two products that, if ported, would make a lot of converts), games and web surf for cheap airline tickets and pr0n. What he doesn't want to do is kernel tuning, add patches (or service packs), manually add zip disks, etc. A computer is a tool. If the average user can't figure out how to use our tool or gets continually frustrated, he'll buy one that he can use a lot easier...Macs and Win 9x.
What we really ought to be doing is not beta testing with other techies, but beta testing with people like my fiancee. Those that have no clue and really don't want one. If it passes that test, then it will be ready for prime time as a home computer OS.
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Newsflash: torture doesn't prevent and hasn't prevented any terrorist attacks since 9/11.
Newsflash: It didn't prevent that one, either.
Annnd to round it out, John Edwards cheating on his wife while she was battle cancer.
The scandal there isn't that he cheated on her. Hell McCain cheated on his 1st wife and left her while she was battling cancer for a younger, richer woman. The scandal is that she accepted his apology and that they have maintained their marriage!
So...when does Mrs. Edwards run for Senator of New York?
My wife and I might not buy a Volt immediately because so many companies are entering the market
:-D
No. You won't buy one, because you won't be able to...unless you order it far in advance or you work for Chevy. The first year model will be with very limited availabilty.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/chevrolet-volt-to-see-limited-availability-at-launch.html
As a frame of reference, 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid will be a run of 12,000 vehicles and there's currently an eight month waiting list. That said, I do enjoy mine.
Can we please start modding up all "fixed that for you" posts to the point of maximum visibility?
Putting words in other people's mouth is about the best thing you can do in a debate/discussion. And adding "fixed that for you" adds a commednable level of profoundness on top of the collaboration.
Fixed that for you.
Also, hell freezing over.
It already has:
Conditions in Hell, MI
You wouldn't know it by the players at casinos.
The same method could be used to avoid costly court battles. This seems like a no-brainer. What am I missing? You're missing the fact that everyone involved with making decisions about the patent process are lawyers. Why on earth would they recommend anything that would cost them a substantial amount of business?
You can't catch flies with vinegar, but you *can* catch them with a hammer.
It's got flexible hours and the pay is performance based.
In the Detroit metropolitan area, gas is approximately $2.20/gallon and diesel is approximately $1.80/gallon.
With that kind of price difference, it's not hard to see whe people are starting to eyeball diesel again.
Actually...why not tax internet (as opposed to intranet) e-mail? I don't mean a flat rate, but rather a sliding scale tax like what's used for income tax. Below a reasonable threshold, say 200 emails/wk, you don't get taxed at all. The more e-mail you send, the more you pay per e-mail. That would utterly destroy the business models of spammers and wouldn't put a burden on Joe User. Btw, it would also put somewhat of a burden on those companies that outsourced their IT dept, but after having mine been outsourced to IBM and then witnessing all the monkey shit around here lately, I have no sympathy.
My understanding is, the fact that you pay for time spent on incoming calls doesn't protect you in any way from any call.
Incorrect. From the Telephone Consumer Protection Act:
a.No person may
1.Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,
iii.To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
So, while cell phones are not protected from *all* calls, they are protected from those that use "an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice," which is a significant percentage since most telemarketing companies use an automatic dialer.
> I am a news photographer for FOX.
If this doesn't give the guy credibility, I don't know what does.
Fox News is the boradcast version of the National Enquirer. After all, it was the fine reporting at Fox news that labelled the guy that logged into CNN's online chat as President Clinton after the system crashed as a hacker.
Steven B. Lipner, Microsoft's director of security assurance, responded, saying: "I'd be astonished if the open-source community has in total done as many man-years of computer security code reviews as we have done in the last two months.
Lipner also reacted with astonishment when he was told that professional wrestling matches are fixed.
"Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed," he said.
So...rather than teach them how to properly develop, test and peer review software loads, thy're just going to brainwash them into good little Micro$oft monkies. Bleh.
The Register is incorrect. HP-UX 11i was developed to run on Itanium so that they can install Unix or NT on the same hardware. Future versions will also be developed.
Read this article for specifics.
> This doesn't look like the GPL I know...
They never claimed it was under the GPL. The press release states, "Sun will distribute Sun Grid Engine software under an industry-accepted open source license in order to accelerate the adoption of the distributed computing model."
Take note that "industry-accepted" is an adjective that means absolutely nothing other than there are other applications distributed under the same license. Also take note that, "in order to accelerate the adoption of the distributed computing model," roughly translates to, "so more people will use it."
If you go to the "Download" page, you'll find the license statment as in all other Sun downloads. It says:
Licensing
The product is free and there is no software enforcement that restricts distribution. The product is issued under a standard Sun Binary Code License.
As many of you already know, the SBCL is Sun's version of Open Source that allows them to control the modifications done to the product.
Welcome to the year 2000. Russia hasn't had a communist government since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1992.
Now quit talking out your ass.
Yep. I knew that no good would come from Mr. Rock producing their albums. He also produced such musical geniuses as Bon Jovi and Motley Crue, the type of bands that Metallica loved to hate in their early days. It's a sad thing to watch a band go from fighting the establishment to becoming the establishment. I find it ironic that their web site has the quote, "And if I close my mind in fear Please pry it open." Seems their minds are closed in fear these days.
"Then I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again." --The Who
Guess what, gang...we got fooled again.
This looks like a list of "Things To Do Today" for the average jock...except for the "feelings of isolation" one.
* Hits or bullies others.
* Expresses uncontrolled anger.
* Has unlawful possession and use of firearms.
* Displays intense intolerance or prejudice.
* Has unlawful possession and use of firearms.
* Has excessive feelings of isolation and/or
rejection.
* Conveys violence in writings and/or drawings.
* Uses drugs or alcohol on campus.
* Makes threats.
* Suddenly has bad grades or little interest in
school.
* Is easily angered by minor things.
*shakes head*
Y'know we'd save a lot of headache if every open source license had the following addendum:
Microsoft, and any subsidiary company or employee thereof, is specifically barred from modifying this source code in any way, shape or form.
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em...preferrably with a big stick.
I still refuse to spend money on any movie produced by a member of the MPAA. If I was going to make an exception to my boycott, it sure as hell wouldn't be for this movie.
Hrm. Even if you manage to trace the person(s) responsible for sending out spam, what are your chances of being able to legally prosecute them if they live in another state or, for that matter, country? Are we going to be arresting a 16 year old boy in Norway because he didn't add the "ADV:" to the subject line?
What about spam that can't be traced to an individual? Is the ISP or e-mail service provider legally liable?
I'm also concerned about how interstate and international commerce laws apply. From just about every angle this looks like a bigger mess to attempt to enforce than the line on the Michigan tax forms that ask how much you've spent on internet purchases so they can make you pay sales tax on it. (Hint: The answer is always $0.00)
Until these issues become the subject of federal law, this is all strikes me as so much mental masturbation designed to sell incumbents to their constituents come re-election time.
*reads Full Moon*
*turns into werewolf*
Arrgh. This makes typing difficult.
Heh. Getting my mother to use Linux wouldn't be that difficult. My fiancee is another matter entirely. She's about as computer literate as a house plant. Which is why I hope they suceed. I'd like to be able to discuss Unix and Linux issues without her eyes glazing over.
That said, making Linux an easier pill for John Q. Public to take requires more than a GUI.
It's going to require a "Plug and Play" ability for peripherials...or at least better automatic detection and mounting. The latter is mostly an issue of better driver support. The former is a much more drastic change.
It's also going to require a increased ability to set things up from the desktop graphic tools. Don't get me wrong. I'm a command line evangelist. As a systems admin, the command line tools give me a better insight to how the system works. John Q. Public, OTOH, really doesn't give a flying fsck how the system works. John Q. Public wants to run his Quicken 2000, Office 2000 (two products that, if ported, would make a lot of converts), games and web surf for cheap airline tickets and pr0n. What he doesn't want to do is kernel tuning, add patches (or service packs), manually add zip disks, etc. A computer is a tool. If the average user can't figure out how to use our tool or gets continually frustrated, he'll buy one that he can use a lot easier...Macs and Win 9x.
What we really ought to be doing is not beta testing with other techies, but beta testing with people like my fiancee. Those that have no clue and really don't want one. If it passes that test, then it will be ready for prime time as a home computer OS.